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8 ?? f BOONE! SKETCHES | By J. C R. TITR OTTTnOXfTP. of tht> hitr of Flemington, Uncle Sam's rejection of the World Court proposal, the antics of Huey Long, the social reforms advocated by President Roosevelt, the expected decision of those solemn Supreme Court justices relative to the constitutionality of a Democratic gold policy, gang murders, lynchings, pubiic scandal ... all these "juicy" morsels wi.ich in days recently past tickled the appetites of Carolina's newspaper readers, shrink to insignificance as reports seep out of Raleigh that certain Assemblymen . . . one of whom retained tinder-like views until recent, weeks . . . are tampering with the inspiring tenets embraced in a certain statute which bears the respected name of its author, Col. Zeb Vance Turlington. UNDOUBTEDLY there's been a change cf heart on the part of a gang of legislators . . but legislators arc- peculiar animals, and intestinal fortitude, or "guts" if you please, is almost always lacking when those august lawmakers start figuring from a politieai angle. A majority of the Senators, perhaps are many House members, are on the verge of ditching Tarheelia's "noble experiment" . . . but the referendum of '33 and the unforgetta hie debacle of '2S still rankle the hides of those whose ambitions are directed toward bigger and sweeter and more colorful plums that grow high on the tree of public preferment. And when they think of those lieaut iful votes, those luscious voles, those essential votes . . . ah, dear me, . . . the dignified gills of the gentlemen front Currituck and Cherokee and Madison and Mecklenburg and Hoke and Pender take on an ashy hue . . . and Senatorial jowls break ont in "goose-piaiplcs." Tlte givers of new laws and lakcrsavvay of old laws cringe with feat: roseate dreams and aesthetic sentiments do battle with old fashioned hoss-sense . . . and then the "dear peepu!" are asked to take a hand. * ? THE MOIST repealer which is apt to go farthest in the present Assembly is the work of Senator John Sprunt Hill, whose intellect, influence and wealth have, in days agone, been freely expended in the cause of State and Federal prohibition. It's a worthy document, perhaps ... a document which would use the "demon" g, as a vehicle of revenue to afford relief for the aged and infirm, widows of veterans and crippled orphans . . . a document garnished with paternalism and seasoned Willi promise. But, along with other objections, Senator Hill lias included tile crowning nemesis of present-dav polities in his potential law, namely, the referendum! He, like so many of 1:1s valiant cohorts, unwilling, or afraid, til take responsibility for this drastic 3tep. IF THE ASSEMSHY is bell-bert on dragging the skeleton from the closet, its members should lie cnuall.v anxious 10 bear oil the!* own nl.?U *1.--' ! muuiucifi Lin: V 111 UHSlfUtlllUCS . , whatever they may he. An election is unpleasant . . . just the ordinary, every-two-year brand . . . but may Ailali deliver His children from the uncalled-for, unasked-for and unwanted referendum which dculu with controversial moral codes. Life is hard enough without having to hear this additional burden! And those who recall enactment of Colonei. Turlington's dry measure can testify that it was a product of the legislative mill ... if it has outlived its usefulness the Legislature should, in like manner, consign it to the bone-yard . . . the people spoke last November when tliey selected members of the body. * m * CAROLINIANS are hard to understand, when the question of "wet" 01 "dry" bobs up. A little more than six years ago Alfred Emanuel Smith lost the State by more than sixty thousand votes supposedly because he advocated beer of 2.75 per cent aideholic content. In 1930 .Tosiah William Bailey, who vigorously championed the Smith cause, defeated Senator Simmons, who battled the New Yorker in the previous election. In 1931 Bob Reynolds stumped the State or a dripping wet platform and defeated dry Cameron Morrison for the United Stales Senate by a majority of 115,000. In the fall of the same year Franklin D. Roosevelt, fervent, opponent of national prohibition, carried the State by a majority unprecedented in history. But in the referendum of November, 1933, the pendulum swung in an opposite direction . . mr?n on/1 rirAmon flooTro/l ? ~~n" ^nu .ruiuwi AiVUIlCU lU UIU puiu and crucified the Federal repealer bj a majority of more than three to or.c Yes, Carolinians are hard to understand! REPEAL of the Turlington Act might be all right ... it might be all wrong ... to this writer it would merely mean a change from the venerated fruit jar to properlylabeled bottles . . . but liquor itself has a mighty poor character, regardless of the cask that bears it: Without the expression of a single personal opinion, we'd like for the Assembly to take care of its own younguns and spank 'em It they need it! # Mk m 3 H / 1 An Inc I I VOLUME XLVI, NUMBER 32 Mrs. Hauptmann and I RaK\r in n^ir'o Nawo II UJk k W*T0 | * * DEFENSE INTRODUCES MORE ALIBI MITNESSES | Mrs. llaiipimann and child as tli?y appeared at Fleming I on, N. J., I where their husband and father, j Richard Bruno Ifauptniann, is beI ing tried f%>r the murder of the | Lindbergh h:iby. As this is printed the trial continues from a defense angle, as witnesses support the defendant's alibi story. Tuesday was described, as his best day in court as evidence continued to link othwith the murder and extortion | plot. MI ST LIMIT SPUDS OR TAKE LOW PRICE Indications Arc That r'arnlinians Most Reduce Acreage, Says Morrow. Istrge Surplus Would Have a Bad Effect 011 New Crop. Present indications are that North Carolina Irish potato growers will lose heavily on their 10.15-crop unless they reduce it by .10 per cent or more, nays K. B Morrow, extension horticulturist at State College. Basing his statements on figures i supplied by A. K. Merckner, secretary of the Interstate Early Potato Committee, Morrow said that the anticipated crop of 8,500 carloads would probably sell for SI ,500,000 less than the cost of production. But if ifn: crop is limited to 5,000 cars, he added, the growers stand in i position tc clear over SI. 100,000 above production costs. In other words, a reduction of 3,500 ear3 will put $2, 1 uuu.vwu tnisu tt it jMWKHt. Some growers liayS expicsstd intentions of producing a big' crop this year in ore; ;r to establish as large p. base as possible, said Morrow, who is executive secretary of the North Caioluia Potato Growers Association. But Morrow pointed out that the | potato advisory committee has requested that the base period be 193034 inclusive, and it is not likely that the 1930 crop will have any effect upon the base average. Furthermore, he said, there is not enough chance of the 1935 crop affecting the base, through a special ruling or otherwise, to justify the growers producing a big crop this year at a heavy loss. Among the advisory committee recommendations are: determination by the secretary of agriculture of the advisable size of the annual crop to 1 be marketed so as to maintain a par1 ity price: a flexible basis of allot' ments to States; a tax of half a cent ; a pound on all potatoes marketed which are not covered by tax-exemp1 tion certificates; transference of cer' tificatcs between growers when desired; and a referendum on the plan after it has been In force one year. | CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATION The United States Civil Service . Commission announces an examina uon to Be held in Boone, N. C., as a I result of which it is expected to make certifiqation to fill a contemplate.: vacancy in the position of fourth clasf ( postmaster at Shulls Mills, N. C. The compensation of the postmaster al ' this office was $600 for the last fisr cal year. Application blanks. Form 9, anr full information concerning the re quirements of the examination can he secured from the postmaster at Shull; Mills or from the United States Civi Sendee Commission, Washington, D 1C. Receipt of applications will close on February 21st, and date of exami nation wiil be announced shortly thereafter. BABY SHOW The Comrade Sunday School Clas: of the loeml Methodist Church plan: to hold a baby show sex>n and hope: that all mothers of the community will Join to make It a success. AUG; lependent Weekly Newspaj BOONE, WATAUGA COUN WATALGANS WILL j" ATTENTI ITNrniMi t *.*.*. u J. i JLT Luiiwui^ ; DINNER TUESDAYS Increased Number of Republicans Ex- _ I peeled to Go from this County to j Annual Meeting in Greensboro. Con| pressman Christianson of MinnesoI tu Principal Speaker. Cliairman j Jlodges Wants Large Delegation. Krbra* thirty to fifty Republicans ofI IW: Ltuga County are expected to at-' |ter.?l the Lincoln Day dinner hi j Greensboro next Tuesday "veiling. ae- j cording to Chairman Russell Hodges of the County Executive Committee, j who is anxious that all those desiring! to attend the annual political banquet J meeting get in touch with liim at once j in order that tickets may be secured. \ The meeting, which is lo be held j at the King Cotton Hotel, beginning j at 0:30 on the 12th, \vi?i be featured j by an address by Hon. Theodore > Christianson. a Congressman from j Minnesota. The speaker is now serv- J ing his second term in the Lower House. He was Governor of Minne- j sota for three terms, and was a mem- : lier of his State legislature for ten ] years, being chairman of the appro- j priatior.s committee for that period. J He is known as one of the country's . best speakers and the State Repub- j lican organization reefs fortunate in J having him as honor guest on this oc- , Asks I-trgc Attendance "Since our party is out of power," reads an announcement from State headquarters, "this is a splendid time _ for us to demonstrate that the Republicans of North Carolina are very much alive. To do this, it is necessary for lis have the. biggest crowd that has ever attended a Lincoln Day i dinner in. this State." Chairman Hodges says that it is | the purpose of the local organization j to 3end from thirty to fifty delegates this year, as against a normal attendance of twenty-five and less. Tickets for the occasion may now be procured, he says, but it is especially advisable thai all wishing to go make i known their intentions to him within I the shortest possible time. MATNEY CITIZEN -I TAKES OWN LIFE Dave Yates Dies from Self-inflicted Gunshot Wounds. Serviees Held at Mfttney Church. Widow aiwl Six Children Survive. jj TYilvP Yafp't nviilfilo-noffl vAci^itnf I I j o;' the Matncy secLion, committed sui-J Cldo Friday; by firing the lead from a shotgun into his left breast, death having been adjudged instantaneous, j Mr. Yates, according to reports, had previously threatened selfilestrueiiuii, a.',.l or. the fs.tsi day left the house with Uie announced intention of shooting squirrels he had heard in the nearby woods. Mrs. ( Yate3 soon heard the report of the ' giin, and thinking tie had hardly had ^ time to reach the forest, sent one of the children to investigate. The fa- o ther was found, a gaping hole in his f chest, tlie shotgun nearby, together (with a forked stick used to release t j the trigger. i I Funeral services were conducted ? from the Methodist Church at Mat- ^ ney Saturday afternoon by Rev. Mur- ( ray, Presbyterian minister, and in- t torment was in that neighborhood. Surviving is the widow and six t children. Mr. Yate3 was the son of Mr. and c , Mrs. Thomas Yates of Vilas, and was ( a highly respected farmer. The Drra- j ocrat does not know what reason is ? assigned for the suicide. t MRS. ZIMMERMAN'S FATHER RECEIVES SEVERE INJURIES r Mr. J. H. Eisher of Asheville, fa- c l ther of Mrs. Charles T. Zimmerman, Boone, was struck down by a hit-andrun motorist at Rockingham on Wed- { nesday nighti of last week. Hi was t rushed to a Hamlet hospital where i ? he is now undergoing treatment for t | a crushed leg and severe wounds on L the scalp. His condition is said to f ; be improving slowly. I Mr. and Mrs. Zimmerman went to e , I Hamlet Saturday, where they tc- r . | rr.air.ed until early Monday. t . | c .J COVE CHEEK COMMUNITY CLUB r 1 The Cove Creek Community Club s II will meet Friday, February 15th, at 3 . 3:15 p. m. at the Home Economics J ;, Building. Mrs. Dora Mast will be in i j charge of the program. Mrs S. F. f 1 Horton and Mrs. Dean Swift will . act as hostesses. All members are > urged to attend, and a special invi. tation is extended to the men of the r community who are interested in tiie ; school. , I WORTH WHILE CLUB i The Worth While Club will meet i 3 next Tuesday, February 12, at the I * home of Mrs. W. C. Greer, with Mrs. J Greei and Mrs. Clyde Winebarger as i joint hostesses. ji V DE 5er?Established in the Y< TY, NORTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY Mayor Cuts the * * * Cs *11 1V7* 1 1 .1 v-ouncui w ieias^uua Makes Merry at P 1! A part of the gathering at ih?* President's ball held last week r.t the Daniel Boone Hotel. Mayor i Fracy Council! and Mrs. Councill re shown as the Mayor cuts a huge birthday cake, adorned by fifty four candles lighted ;n honor of President Roosevelt, and they are surrounded by a number of those who participated in the event. County Agent Plan to t Be Settled Feb. 15th On account of the illness of one , of its members, Mr. \V. F. Miller. li the Board of County Commissioners again failed to take definite action in the matter of the employ- j ment of a county farm agent, the j proposal having gained much support among the farm people dur- n ing the last several! months. Mr. 1 f ?T. R. McRary of State College was j I again, present and will return on the 15th when it is promised that ; t the mutter will be decided. i i Indications are that au agent j< Will Ife Employed arid Stale Col- ' 4 lege officials are anxious to c.o- j 1 operate with the commissioners in !1 wec-urlhg a proper man for the posit ton. *CA IN DISTRICT I MEET SATURDAY'; r f. G. Farthing Re-sleeted Director in -Credit Association, While Charles G. Iloilgt-S is Isieai Stem-: ;*ry. Viatel Heads Groups. . ; i The annual stockholders meeting of j' he Wijkesboro Production Credit As- ] ociation was held at the offices in ' Vilkeshoro Saturday afternoon, the j i rincipal business bemg the election 1 c f the following board of directors: I. G. Far thing, Watauga; Fred N.j i tolvard, Ashe; Paul ,T. Vestal, W'iiites; J I. B. Hobson, Yadkin; W. H. Ilardv, j lurry. Pursuant to instructions from he Production Credit Association of i Columbia, the directorate was re- j iuced from 9 to 5 members, in order | ] o nave administrative costs. Following the stockholders meeting he directors elected Paul J. Vestal, iresider.t; W. R. Hardy, vice-presilent; T. W. Ferguson, secretary. Mr. t. G. Hodges of Boone was named j Deal secretary and is ready to re-! eive loan applications for this couny. His office is to be located in the courthouse for the present. Mr. W. E. Shipley of Vilas was lamed as inspector, and will pass up>n the collateral offered by applicants. Webb Addresses Meeting Mr. W. M. Webb, secretary of the Columbia PCA, made an address on he activities of the association durng the year 193-1. He was assisted in j he conduct of the meeting by J. Ed-1 vin Tiddy of Colnmbis., the regional ield representative. This year, it is explained, ail farm:rs desiring loan3 for modernization if homes and other buildings will have -o subscribe for Class B stock in orier to procure these loans. Loans are j natte, it is understood, on crops, live-1 j itock and implements, in amount of I, >50 and above. The "interest rate is , > per cent, and no interest is charged intil money is actually in the hands >f the applicant. . ; MITCHELI?GKEEK 1 The friends of Miss Hazel Greer and i Mr. Charlie Mitchell will be interestid to learn of their marriage, which > took place recently. The bride is the attractive daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Cicero Greer of the Siiverstone section. She is very popular among a '.vide circle of friend3. Mr. Mitchell Is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ira Mitchell, aiso of the Siiverstone section. Mod ;ar Eighteen Eighty-Eight FEBRUARY 7, 1935 Birthday Cake $ Y- I ss" as Laree Crowd 1 residential Ball. iT'.ie bull v.us aUemled by people j rom about fivv western North Caj- Jr blinu caVtnties, and the net proceeds jf nmoiuj LM iv> .>$7.00, fiyjmUfitg; a row donations by thos.? who di \ no! buy (laiu? ticfiecS. Seventy per cent of the money remains !ior<* for treat- f ment of infantile paralysis victims L locally; thirty per cent goes to the ^ Warm Springs Foundation. 10G CORN PAPERS~ | READY TO SIGN teprcsentutive of State Department ; of Agriculture Will Speak to Hog c Breeders at Courthouse Here j On February 15th. . ( Corn-hog induction contract:; arc j io\v rcaity for the signatures of the ( armors of this county, states S. C j Sggsrs, local representative of the < issceiallou, v.'lir, further announces ( hat A. H. Chambers of the State ( lepartment of Agriculture will ail- , Iress the farmers of the couhty at he courthouse here Fi iJay, February s, at. 10 o'clock. Mr. Chambers will o prepared to answer all questions 1 o.teeming the hojr reduction pro-i' . r: ar.r! "ill explain in detidV the!1 'if. fo>' .-U' oi'iKiujv thir :lull} of the .' :'i . ling' iuduslty. it ir 1 I that lest ym- the j o reduction constituted 25*' of the]' .erage of production in the years'.' P3f:-3:;. This year the Sul; period of j: itre will "he used as a base and the!' fiction askeO is only 10 per cent. |' "cFTfifaf iu'per cciit the farmer vein j ' - eive t'wnt t ic Government pay at ' !: - rate e.f $15 per pig for: those he ails to produce. Any farmer who has ;em producing corn or nogs is eligi:T? 'o sign "a cbricract, wiF-th" c.r not sighed tost year. Blank? are avaiiabie at Mr. Eggers' ' -ict in ooo.iO in inc. meantime. ana;' t is expected that all contracts be I ixecuted by the float of March. HORSE STEALING CHARGES AIRE!) > ' three Given ltoiul Sentences Tuesday for Taking Mules and Horse. Others Gel Sentences for Larceny and Drunkenness. Days of long ago when approprialion of another man's beast, particularly his horse, resulted in a "necktie party," the accused playing the part of the man at the end of the rope, were vividly recalled in Recorder's Court Tuesday, when Kcrmit Wilcox, Walter and Millard Greer were tried for the larceny of two mules, a tiorse and a saddle. Judge Bingham sentenced the trio to S months on the roads, the first named having filed notice of appeal to the Superior Jourt. The rr.ule3 were the property of Mr. .V. R. Greene of New River and were aken from his stables on the night >f January 28. The horse and saddle ' lame from the barn of Mr. Jim Walls. 1 i short distance away. The bcast3 vere recovered the next day andDeplty Sheriff Lester Carroll arrested die three men. Mr. fircene states that lis mules have been badly abused, and ire not able for work?in fact, can scarcely stand. Other Cases Sebron Burleson and Elmre Saine, attaches of a CCC camp, were arraigned on charges of the larceny of tire3 and gasoline, breaking and entering, were given six months in each case. Letcher Tcague was before the court for drunkenness, and the conditions of a six-months suspended sentence, previously passed, were invoked. Henderson and Polk County apple growers have ordered a car of spray t materials co-operatively. j ) AT to ||H *1.60 PEK YioAR 20,?0 IS LOCAL riil'S 1* A ?* liAl IHAILUKUKKS P.OJIGURESSHOW ocal Merchants Appear Before Joint Legislative Committee and Show a Huge Loss of Business to Watauga County on Account of 3 Per Cent Sales Levy. Five Hundred Tradesmen Join in Presenting Case. October. I^oycsnber and Decernr. 1934, patrons : Ih Boone postJice ucuuht -20 : more in money rders ma ie ayal to mail order rjjcanlile firms than in the same er- d of 1332, according to figures en the jgf&fc finance committee of : 5 ' } .v. lata re last -veek by Clyde It. vr-f-r.e. Boone mere har t and secretry cf the Watauga Fair Tax Asso ition, who in co..\; < ay with other /{ aI merchants jour neyed to Raleigh / appear as witnesses against the 3 er cent retail sales tax. C W. Teal. Frank Pearson and Ilemi Broun composed the other oembers of the Watauga delegation, '.*ho with 500 others gathered fi*oro ery county in the State appeared in be hearing arranged by the State Merchants Association as it seeks to >revent the re-cnactment of the sales itx i^glsiauoii. Gretmo Is Spokesman Acting as spokesman for the deleration. Mr. Greene gave postal figires to show that in the months of October, November and December, 932, J527.220.90 in money orders were nailed from the Boone postoffice to nail order merchants, while in 1934. L'ilh the sales tax. $47,231.40 went hrough the agency of postal checks o outside retailers. At the same Lime, it was shown hat in 1929 Watauga Countys* retail radc amounted to S2.GiG.GGG, placing t in 56th place among the one hunIrod counties of the State. In 1933, le. continued, it occupied 76th place vith a drop in retail trade to $764,100. Watauga County, it is believed, ms suffered a great, loss of business n account of the sales tax, due in arge measure to the fact that it joins he State of Tennessee and is also in dose proximity to the Virginia line, here being no sales tax in either itate. North Carolina Figures The legislator were further shown :hat in 1929 the mail order business the State of North Carolina, tfed to $23,709,(100: in 1932, >23,490,Q00; that in 1933, when the :ales tax had been in force for six vuiith;. 10 mail order trade jumped u ^?0,375,000; and that, one full year M the three per coat levy had taken i37.!29j934 from the trade of IhemiThunts of tin; State, through the mail irder route. ?tit ia further indicated by the retail r: figures thai iiu- nation over rood! trade was off 37 per cent during the period of 3923 to J933, but that in North Carolina it waa -ii. J beiow normal. In Watauga County it is shown im-iv; ii'ui uccji tt iciaii lusj ui o-. pci ncnt, most of which is laid at the door jf the retail levy. Say Tax Musi Go The local merchants upon returnu:g to Boone state that sentiment is rapidly growing in Raleigh against the re-enactment of the tax and they believe it is now quite likely that with [lie introduction of substitute revenue measures that the solons will eliminate the levy on sales. Any way, they say. the situation looks brighter now Lhan at any time since the merchants took up the cudgel against the controversial levy. EGGERSDOESNOT PURCHASE SPUDS Krroiieous Report as to Buying of Irish Potatoes Corrected by Loan Agent. Market Found for Those Who Are In Debt. Mr. S. C. Eggers of the local Farm Loan Office calls the attention of The Democrat to an erroneous report which has been circulated over the county to the effect that the Federal Government is buying Irish potatoes, and asks that it be corrected. Mr F.ggers states emphatically that the Federal Government is not buying local potatoes, never has, or so far as he knows never wiii. He, how ever, on his own initiative, sought to find a market for the 200,000 bushel Watauga County surplus, so that in turn the farmers might pay the Government their loans. In other words, he is trying to bring the farmer and the market together, and has now found an outlet for the potatoes at forty cents a bushel for number ones, net, delivered in Boone. Farmers who owe Federal loans may sell their potatoes under this 5 arrangement, and the money to be applied as credit on their obligation. Those wishing to sell potatoes and not owing the Government may get In touch with Mr. Eggers, and if he can aid them he will do so. ISp- ; "4 2 j '/"'I ! m ;
Watauga Democrat (Boone, N.C.)
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